第二章 Writing Poems：Chapter 2 provides students with the knowledge and practice to write many types and styles of poems. They learn what makes poetry distinctive and the common properties it shares with the other three genres of creative writing. Students learn about different forms, terminology, and techniques to write poems. They gain practice in using these tools to write several of their own poems using various styles and methods.2.1Shapes of Poems: Classical Forms and Free Verse:In this lecture, we’ll learn the three significant tools that make poems musical: rhyme, rhythm and alliteration. Next, we’ll focus on the way poetry looks to us and learn lines that are end-stopped and enjambed. We’ll also learn figures of speech such as hyperbole and repetition. Then we’ll look at a traditional form of poetry, that is, sonnets. Finally, we’ll learn three valuable and effective tools in poetry writing: images, metaphors, and diction.[单选题]The three musical tools in poetry are rhythm, rhyme and ______.
2.2Tools of Poems: Sound, Structure, Organization:In this lecture, we are going to talk about what a stanza is and how we can make use of it. And we will learn about onomatopoeia where we can use the sounds of language to convey our meaning which adds to the impact of our poetry. Then we are going to focus on how to write occasional poems such as ode, elegy and epithalamium for all the special events we experience in life. Finally, we are going to learn different types of rhyme and rhythm in English poetry.
2.3Creating your Own Poems:In this lecture, we’re going to learn two conventional forms of poetry: cinquain and visual poetry. Then we’ll look at an invented form of poetry: free verse. Next we’ll learn how to control the pace or speed of poetry through two techniques: narrative pacing and what happens in our stanzas. Finally, we’ll focus on three open poetic forms—list poem, found poem and walk poem.
foot
stress
juxtaposition
alliteration
答案：alliteration
[单选题]Where does western poetry tradition begin?
France
Greece
Rome
England
答案：Greece
Royals
Bards
Priests
Scholars
答案：Bards
an enjambed line
a stanza
a cinquain
a couplet
答案：an enjambed line
Couplets can be very effective in end-stopped form when the first line asks a question, like a riddle, and the second line gives the answer.
Each line can stand alone by itself and make sense.
The two lines in a couplet must have the same number of words.
A couplet—just like a couple—means two lines.
答案：The two lines in a couplet must have the same number of words.
couplet.
quatrain
stanza
tercet
答案：tercet
sensory
stereotypical
emotional
exaggerated
答案：stereotypical
directions
people
places
points of view
答案：points of view
means words that sound like what they mean.
is a kind of sound made by people.
cannot be used with other figures of speech.
doesn’t involve rhyme and rhythm.
答案：means words that sound like what they mean.
Doing or saying the same thing many times.
Speaking or writing that makes something sound better, more exciting, etc. than it really is.
The use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.
Comparing something to something else.
答案：Doing or saying the same thing many times.
